Creates representations of both imaginary and real-life ideas, events, people and objects
Initiates new combinations of movements and gestures in order to express and respond to feelings, ideas and experiences
Chooses particular movements, instruments/sounds, colours and materials for their own imaginative purposes
Uses combinations of art forms, e.g. moving and singing, making and dramatic play, drawing and talking, constructing and mapping
Responds imaginatively to art works and objects, e.g. this music sounds likes dinosaurs, that sculpture is squishy like this [child physically demonstrates], that peg looks like a mouth
Introduces a storyline or narrative into their play
Plays cooperatively as part of a group to create, develop and act out an imaginary idea or narrative